Welsh Statutory Instruments
Public Health, Wales
Made
at 3.08 p.m. on 22 January 2021
Laid before Senedd Cymru
at 5.30 p.m. on 22 January 2021
Coming into force
at 4.00 a.m. on 23 January 2021
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Textual Amendments
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Persons Travelling to Wales etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/595 (W. 136)) (“the Passenger Information Regulations”) impose requirements on operators of international passenger services coming from outside the common travel area to an airport, heliport or seaport in Wales (“operators”), to provide passengers with specified public health information. These Regulations amend the Passenger Information Regulations so that that specified information includes information about the requirement under regulation 6A of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/574 (W. 132)) (“the International Travel Regulations”), to possess notification of a negative coronavirus test result.
These Regulations also amend the International Travel Regulations to;
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These Regulations also amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Pre-Departure Testing and Operator Liability) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/48 (W. 11)) so that operators are not required to ensure that a notification of a negative coronavirus test result is in the form of a “qualifying test”, i.e., a test which meets the standards specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1A to the International Travel Regulations. Operators are required to check that passengers possess a notification of a coronavirus test which includes specified information, while liability for ensuring the result was from a qualifying test falls on the passenger.
The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, a regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared as to the likely cost and benefit of complying with these Regulations.